We inquired at the Innamincka Trading Post. The Cordillo Downs road still had a few wet patches but there were drive arounds for all of them and the road was open. We topped up with fuel and headed off.

We stopped at this abandoned bore for lunch. The bore is still visible along with this tank and some old cattle troughs but the only operational trough is getting its water from somewhere else.

Having driven some of the road I can see why it takes awhile to dry out. The road has been graded so that it is now lower than the surrounding land.

Our destination the Cordillo Downs Shearing shed.

The moon rising over the sand dune at our campsite on the way back.

Lots of budgies nesting here too.

Also lots of mossies, so difficult to sit outside and enjoy the full moon.

Moomba is really in the middle of nowhere. Just before I took this photo the plane took off. All the workforce is fly in fly out. I really had no idea how large in area the oil and gas field out here was. There are oil wells all the way from inside Queensland near Noccundra to here and and beyond.

The Strzelecki Track is no longer a track, it is a gravel highway able to cope with heaving road trains carrying fuel and heavy mobile plant. There are a lot of small scale oil and gas projects going on with small camps scattered throughout the "desert".

The campground is right next to this large sand dune.

There is a lot of green and flowers about.

I got a bit arty on top of the dune in the morning.

There is a lot of small scale "mining" stuff going on out here. I don't know what this small camp is for but it not the only one. There are road trains carrying all sorts of mobile plant on the roads. Yes they are gravel roads no longer befitting names like the Strzelecki Track.

We had gotten a couple of Queensland border passes while in Innamincka so unlike these people we were able to go into Queensland to visit the store. Still the only person at the store was keeping fit walking back and forth to the fence filling peoples orders.

The Post.

Ann checking that she wasn't in New South Wales (Don't want to have to quarantine  here for 14 days)

Another overnight stop near these ruins.

I took the opportunity to have another go at creating an image at night. This is more that one image merged with software.